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[Maiels]

Hello! for a while I have been trying to make "\a"work...it doesn`t ,by not working I mean that it makes no BEEP as it should... Any idea? thank you!

[Lynx876]

'\a' ?

[Maiels]

@Lynx876 yes but shouldn`t it work if I do something like cout<<"BEEP \a";???

[Maiels]

@Lynx876 I tried what you said...still no Beep.

[Lynx876]

The following works fine for me:
cout << '\a' << '\a' << '\a' << '\a' << '\a';

[Maiels]

@Lynx876 exactly how I thought ,it still doesn`t work . Do I need to enter a header? or maybe because I`m using CodeBlocks doesn`t work? Or maybe because I use a laptop?
...I also tried on other compilers...same. I think it`s because of the PC

[Lynx876]

I use Visual Studio, but I don't think that should make a difference.

I created an empty project, so no, no extra headers are needed.

This is all the code I used to get my PC to beep:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
	std::cout << '\a' << '\a' << '\a';

	return 0;
}

[Peter87]

The C++ standard doesn't say that '\a' should beep. I can't hear any beep.

[Maiels]

I give up. I`m sure that my PC is the problem. Thank you everyone anyway . Have a nice day!